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27 Articles match "Clearstone","Startup"
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Startup DNA: How do you build a truly remarkable company?
Clearstone Venture Partners
1351 Tickets: Strategy Series & Mixer: $60 Member Price: $40 / Mixer Only: $35 Member Price: $25
Digital LA – Celebrity Websites Panel – The Oscars are coming up, perfect time for our panel on celebrity websites! We had so much fun dressing up and watching the show together last Why does everything in LA Tech have to happen on the same day? Lots to check out this week, especially on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Beyond cash, the other ways an angel group adds value to a startup is through great advice and personal connections.
Although many of our portfolio companies have told us the Angel round is the last tranche of money they’ll need (and they even say it with a straight face), most startups will invariably require follow-on funds.
couple of years ago, William Quigley of Clearstone Venture Partners wrote an appropriate blog post, Value of Certain Angel Part IV of a Continuing Series on How to Select an Angel Group
Several months before Jason Calcanis’ crusade (or jihad—depending
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures.
First, Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office. A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy in the Musical Instrument Business Keywords Layoffs Fund Venture Capital Events Technology Angel Mahalo Zag MySpace Geni
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Monday, June 22, 2009
in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. The company was incubated by Clearstone Ventures, which has been actively pulling together management teams and funding new startups in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Tags: clearstone capital venture tmobile application mobile geodeli Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite locations and helps them find local
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Early stage VCs typically say that the ebbs and flows of the stock market don't effect the valuations they pay in start up financings. At the formation stage, when a start up is little more than a business plan and a few dedicated engineers, there are a host of other factors that influence valuations more so than PE multiples of public companies. Whereas just a few months ago it was possible to get a 3X step up in valuation That may be true. VCs tend to put greater weight on the potential market size of the product being built, the reputations of the founders
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Beyond cash, the other ways an angel group adds value to a startup is through great advice and personal connections.
Although many of our portfolio companies have told us the Angel round is the last tranche of money they’ll need (and they even say it with a straight face), most startups will invariably require follow-on funds.
couple of years ago, William Quigley of Clearstone Venture Partners wrote an appropriate blog post, Value of Certain Angel Part IV of a Continuing Series on How to Select an Angel Group
Several months before Jason Calcanis’ crusade (or jihad—depending
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Your startup (or startup aspirations!). This This must be your first startup in order to win.
Only fools rush in to venture money, and for good reason – underestimate the bargaining power of your target investor, and you may just end up with a broken heart. Before you jump in, you need to understand the strategies and tactics of negotiating a funding round and it starts with the first date. Dealmaker has been putting together conferences and roundtables in LA of consistently high quality for the past two years. These These are the folks that put on the Startonomics
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media Alelo Google Yahoo Mahalo MySpace Tech Coast Angels Idealab Mission Ventures Clearstone Hollywood Santa Barbara Venice San Diego Santa Monica Twiistup
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. (socalTECH The day started with a keynote by John Suh of Legalzoom.com, and topped off with a pitch from David Sacks -- CEO of Geni.com, and also CEO of Geni spinoff Yammer.com, which recently won the top prize at the TechCrunch50-- plus a question and answer session which had Matt Coffin, founder of LowerMyBills, grilling Internet technology celebrity Jason Calacanis.
The socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).
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Monday, January 25, 2010
The Founder Institute , the business incubation and mentoring program started by TheFunded's Adeo Ressi , is expanding into the Los Angeles area, and is accepting applications for entrepreneurs for a Spring session, the group said late last week. The group said Monday it is running an information session at Clearstone Ventures Thursday evening.
...Tags: The Los Angeles effort is being headed by Ken Rutkowski . In an invite to an information session on the incubation program, Rutkowski said that mentors in the Los Angeles program include Alan Friel, Bill Woodward, Brock
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures.
First, Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office. A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
From the sounds of things, social networking is out, and travel might be up. An article posted on the WSJ site talking about an increase in VC interest in travel quotes local venture capitalist Jim Armstrong , of Clearstone Ventures , who says: “We’re excited about categories with a lot of money around them and there’s a lot of money in travel.”
Where are the travel startups in Southern California? What’s out, and what’s in as a theme for venture investments? There’s Pasadena-based LeisureLink (funded by Clearstone), Pasadena-based AdventureLink
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